SDMiner

I went to a club outing on the Arkansas River on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas a few years back visiting family and they were getting some good fine gold. The go to set up was a 4 stack Gold Cube with the classifier on top. More material you move, the more gold you get! They had me laughing when they showed me a fly turd piece of gold and said "This is an Oklahoma nugget". Good times. 

I can see it now....Hershbach & Porter Gold Adventures coming to a Goldfield near you! 

Give him a ring and ask him.

John (530) 570-6080

https://minerjohndesigns.com

Bob Peterson @ San Diego Metal Detector has 3 or 4 of them. He closed his physical location down, but is selling stuff from home. Bob 619 303 7345 

On 9/18/2020 at 3:47 AM, George1971 said:

Hello everybody, does anyone have information about this brand (Deteknix) and his metal detectors (Quest)? Has anyone test it and are there any opinions about the detectors? It is not at Steve’s data base. Thanks.

Quit wasting your time and buy Minelab. 

4 hours ago, phrunt said:

They can't update the old ones

Hello Simon,

Thank you for your email, unfortunately the Gold Monster 1000 are not upgradable so in this instance we are unable to update your detector for you.

 

 

The Ground balance in your Gold Monster 1000 will cancel out the same mineralisation levels at the fast track option does in the later models it will just take a little longer for your detector to achieve this (10-30 seconds)

 

 

 

 

 

I received the same email. Now a proud owner of a "Slow Monster 1000".

Loving the new look. As always, I think Steve needs a tip jar in the drop down menu. -Mike

Hey Sourdough. I would reach out to Royal Mfg. here in Southern California and see if Robert the owner can make you a custom size fabric screen or order one of his existing products if it fits. The Royal Drywasher and the Gold Buddy are very similar in construction as I have owned both models. Good luck! -Mike

www.royalmfgind.com

https://www.royalmfgind.com/product/royal-gold-9-7-8x-21-5-8/

Not the best edit....but you get my point! Hope Minelab or Steve doesn't bust my chops for having a little fun...🦧 

Looks like Bill and Linda's web page has come to an end....😒

SDMiner: San Diego Miner

Name: Mike Gibson 

I just ordered my 5500!

Is the Keene A23 Crevice Super Sucker still available?

For those of you that don't know me I recently had a severe volume spike in my tinnitus due to my 50% bilateral hearing loss. I've had the ringing for the last 10 years at a very very low tone that was only noticed if I listened for it, now it's on a whole other level. To explain the ringing, it pretty much sounds like the threshold of a GPX on full blast in your head. This weekend I tried to go swinging the Monster and GPX 5000 and found it to be very difficult to concentrate on listening to the machines as my brain was affixed to the ringing in my ears. Im hoping new hearing aids this week with a better masking tone will help. Any suggestions from anybody else who has tinnitus on what they do to enhance there detecting time to make it more enjoyable? -Mike

 I'm not much for carry bags for metal detectors but I figured it would be really nice just to throw the Gold Monster in the truck and take off instead of wrapping it up like a precious cargo to head to the desert. I found a Minelab Excalibur bag on eBay and I figured it was big enough and said what the heck and bought it. I'm pretty happy with the way it worked out. And yes that is the new Doc's Gold Monster cover and arm cuff that is the cats meow when it comes to protection for this machine.

I highly recommend Doc's Carbon Fiber shaft for the GPX 5000. The stock upper aluminum shaft weighs 7.4 ounces and the Carbon Fiber shaft weighs 4.3 ounces. It doesn't sound like much difference in weight, but every little ounce shaved off counts and I also do not have an aluminum shaft above the coil causing the machine to lose sensitivity and other issues. -Mike

Hard Prospector: I purchased a SDC 2300 MJD cover and a knuckle saver off eBay. Auspost was fairly quick with the knuckle plate coming from down under! And no the nugget doesnt come with it....Links below. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Miner-John-Designs-Heavy-Duty-Coil-Cover-for-the-Minelab-SDC-2300-Metal-Detector/273166309326?epid=11019977924&hash=item3f99fb17ce:g:adcAAOSwNSZa14T7:sc:USPSFirstClass!91942!US!-1

https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Knuckle-Saver-SDC-2300-Protector/332636217187?hash=item4d72a9df63:g:kdMAAOSwSelbbBfT

Thanks Goldseeker! 

Hey longhn! I would buy Steve's GPZ if I were you. I would love to own anything the Gold Godfather Steve has touched! P.S. Steve you selling that fresh Walco pick yet ? -Mike

Radioworld in Canada is having a sale on Ebay for the Commander 15x12 Mono coils. Also Radioworld is an authorized Minelab dealer and they ship to the USA. Came out to $92.99 shipped to my door.

Any update on these Gold Monster headphones?

Picked up a 2300 the other day! Mojave bound soon.

7 hours ago, phrunt said:

Thanks, yes, I have a bluetooth low latency transmitter that works perfectly with the GM and Minelab Nox headphones.  I've even used it on my GPX 4500 to make it wireless, worked fine there too.

I am starting to discover hotrocks lately at a couple of places I've been too, they're a pain with any detector from what I can see.

Which transmitter do you use? 

Thanks for the comments everybody. There were a lot of high fives that day!

Hardprospector knows where this place is...he's probably driven by it a 100 times!?

Simon: I ran in the automatic 1 sensitivity level most of the time. I tried to run manual 10 but it is quite a bear to ground balance. Dropped it down to 7-8 and it ground balances out pretty good. Oh and did I tell you this machine has an obsession with hot rocks? I am really digging how easy it is to use. Now if Minelab would just release a transmitter that will plug into the monster and work with the Nox wireless headphones...I read one of your articles awhile back about how you used a transmitter and headphones on a Monster..did they work for you? -Mike